China where Apple success that Google Microsoft doesn’t

Chinese like Apple product

 China has the most special situation that the government has big power to decide which content to deliver to the audience. This makes the liberate western company very uncomfortable, especially google, which finally quit from China in 2010 with a big bang. Although Microsoft shows much more patient on the same issue, it doesn’t win the Chinese heart, either. However, Apple smashes in China without putting much effort.

Mobile Ads for Local Business

local business & mobile ads

Smartphone (like iPhone & Android phones) are hugely popular all over the world. The tech news giant such as techcrunch.com, BGR reports various news versions of iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy and Amazon tablet everyday to catch people’s eyes before their competitors even all are based on speculation. Well, it can be also deduced by the revenue report revealed by Apple.inc. The Q2 revenue in 2011 shows iPhone 4 contributes most compared with iMAC and iPad. A new survey conducted by Comscore.com is a solid proof, too. It reveals some interesting facts:

1.       Compared with PC, mobile use grows rapidly.

2.       Mobile usage mainly come from smart phones(iPhone,  Android, Blackberry).

3.       Engagement increasing as mobile social usage become a daily activity.

Top 10 iPhone Apps You Can’t Miss

Apple announced that its have reached 15 billion app downloads with 425,000 applications available at its app store. It’s huge. To help iPhone newbies not get lost, here are the top 10 apps for iPhone 4 that you can’t miss.

1. Angry Birds

Angry Birds

Angry Birds doesn’t need to introduce as it’s well-known as the most popular iPhone /iPad games ever. It’s easy to learn how to play. And the operation is simple. With witty touches throughout, your goal is to break down the barricades that protect green pigs no matter how the birds are angry. Its population also leads another phenomenon: iPhone case with angry birds are widely welcome.

2. FaceBook

Facebook is a triumph. You can’t miss the facebook mobile version if you don’t want to miss the latest news of your friends. And honestly to say, the iPhone Facebook app is uniquely suited to the smartphone with grid-based home screens and a secondary page where you can store your favorite shortcuts.

TOP 5 Up-coming Release Phone/Tablet Anticpation: iPhone 5, Samsung Nexus Prime

Apple’s third quarterly revenue report shows huge increasing sales on iPad and iPhone. All competitors can’t wait to launch new flagship products to defend. Even Amazon joins the team and claims to produce tablets to compete with the surging iPad 2. Apart from the tablet wave, technology giants also realize the big potential in Asian Pacific, especially China. What will be released to meet the demand?

The next iPhone 5?

  

Google+ China is Hard to Survive, Banned in 1 Day

Google+ is definitely a big shot to the social network giants facebook and twitter. In only 2 weeks, 10 million people joined and 1 billion messages are shared. As a mature and successful multinational Internet company, Google offers searching service for lots of countries and companies. The apps google launches like docs, readers are popular among online businessmen. Its influence is ignorable. However, Google announced to leave China due to the difficulty to adjust the local culture. You know China means, the most developing economic and most people online. This time, Google+ also released a Chinese version. But it only exist for 1 day, and can’t be accessed as it is banned by the government .

Creative Promotion Ways for iPad

I just watched a video titled “Will It Blend? - iPad”. I was scared to see a man who wears a doctor’s uniform turning an iPad into piece in 1 minute. In the short video, he first smashed the iPad several times on the base of a blender, then folded it into the blender and blend it into piece.  And the viewers are huge: 11,808,532. For the first sight, I think it’s weirdly funny. But when I dig in it, I felt it is somebody’s tactics to promote its blender. After put the channel name on the address, it comes out a blender online store with a banner with the video owner there. Well, this video is amazing, how we can use it to our iPad 2 cases promotion?

Trend on Tablet: iPad vs Blackberry Playbook

I have already written several articles about RIM, honestly to say, I’m more interested in RIM than Apple. To me, I can learn more through penetrating the raise and fall of this smartphone giant. I luckily read a article from BRG, which deeply digged the causes which made RIM fall to this situation from a mouse of former executive of RIM. In that article it questions the creatively and marketing sense of Mike Lazaridis, who is one of the co-CEOs. It also points Mike spends too much energy on details and cares nothing about the real demand, which all together made Blackberry lose the throne to iPhone and Android. Whatever, RIM releases Blackberry Playbook, whether it means RIM picks up the pieces self-esteem and is ready for a new tablet battle. However, it is surely a tuff battle.

5 Reasons People Stick to Blackberry

Blackberry

RIM’s Blackberry is struggling fighting against Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android on the smartphone field. Like myspace.com is replaced by facebook, competitive battle starts and ends all the time in the technology world. According to static from pcworld, Blackberry are still hungry popular in UK although market share are swallowed by Android and iPhone in other places including the USA, Canada and Austria. It was said the data shows that Blackberry mainly appeal to Women and young people. The competitive price allows young people to switch to a smart phone affordable. Apart from that, there are some other features attract people to stick to Blackberry, which is collected from a poll by crackberry.

Apple Trends You Should Know

Rumors are flying about the new iPhone and iPad Apple.inc will release in the fall. Tech blogs like techcrunch, thenexweb,9to5mac all join. First about iPhone, the point highlights that there will be two models which target different auditions coming out. The low-end one may be a combination of iPod touch with 3G capability with pre-paid service available. Well, this is a complement qualified to the conventional strategy. You have to fill the market from top to bottom. Which will surely get Asian and African Apple freaks cheer up. Honestly, if such an iPhone is released in China, I will definitely get one.

iPad Camera Connection Kit, A Must-Have iPad Accessoriy

sw-box iPad camera connection kit

iPad 2’s debut has brought a surge in the ipad accessories market. Combines with mac-book with iPods, iPad 2 is also regarded as one of the most innovative products Apple delivered which together win the title of most creative tech company of USA. As more and more people use iPad, accessories including doc stand, keyboard, usb power adapter, and camera connection kit for iPad iPad 2 are highly sought after in the market. And the iPad camera connection kit is absolutely a must-have for all iPad freaks.

Here is why!

1.       Turn your iPad in to high-res digital camera viewer. Want to watch pictures with your family outside with a big screen instead of a little screen on a heavy camera. Well, it comes true with this protical iPad camera connection dock. For those who enjoy taking pictures, the ipad camera connection kit, which enables you to synch photos and videos back and forth between your camera and ipad is a necessity. iPhones, iPod touch and nano can also be synched to your iPad with this kit. Isn’t that convenient?

If iPhone got an Keyboard, Blackberry will Lose the Game Completely

iPhone hits the world with a big shock. The old smart phone giant blackberry took a deep breath and can do nothing but see the share was swallowed by Apple as well as Android. A state from comscore.com reveal the smartphone market currently. Google’s Android is listed on the top with 38.1% share from March to May. Apple strengthened its #2 position with 26.6 percent of the smartphone market, up 1.4 percentage points.  RIM ranked third with 24.7 percent share, a 4.2 percent drop from February of 2011 (note: the comScore numbers deal with March 2011 figures).  

Total Smartphone Subscribers	Feb.2011	May. 2011	Point Change
Google	33.0%	38.1%	5.1
Apple	25.5%	26.6%	1.4
Blackberry	28.9%	24.7%	-4.2

Statics from Comscore.com

What’s Changed after you have a Twitter /Facebook Account?

Social network is hungry popular in these days. One thing is that people can enjoy a lot fun from more communications with lovers, friends, family and so on via social network. The other thing is that the mobile device with OS or Android system offers a more convenient way for people to send their messages instantly. An iPhone keyboard can be easily found on online stores to support text type.

What teen do on the Interet

Following a survey of 500 teens from lab42.com, most teens prefer text to phone calls. And more than 30% of the time online via smart phones is used on facebook.com. Another news came recently is that twitter got over 200 million twitts every day since Jun 30. And in China it is called weibo, which become the hottest platform where people share their thoughts anywhere when they find something interesting. Some people worry it will lower the time people meet each other and hurt the relationship as they choose to surf on the virtual Internet world.

First about the virtual world, we know it’s a negative word. Well, a worry was necessarily when the Internet is not mature enough for people to interact years ago. Without the third party to verify identity, people can hardly trust the guy on the other side. And when joining a chat, whether the guy is male or female all depended on guess.  For time being, facebook as well as twitter become one of the most real-time place with real name to share things. People never worry the guy who named “Mike Green” is a pig. And from what their friends saying, we can probably know what he is.

Chinese Electronics Benefit from Technology Development

Lots of iPhone 4 Cases are still for sale. 

Technology changes fast recently. Currently all the tech blogs are talking about the Google+ which is explained to be another powerful social network Google delivered to fight against with facebook  after Google Buzz and Google wave failed. Right now it needs an invitation to taste it. Cellphonezone which locates in shenzhen, China, doesn’t have this chance. Even though, the marketing manager Micheal still spends lots of time every day watching the change of the technology world. And he has something worried about his electronic accessory store right now.

“iPhone 5 is coming out soon. And there are lots of cool iPhone 4 cases in our warehouse. We’ll produce iPhone 5 cases instead when the new iPhone model is released. However, the iPhone 4 cases will be a problem”. Micheal said.